All Elvis' No.1 US Singles in one box set. Each Double-Sided CD Single with Original Artwork - Now that is a great packaging idea. If you are an Elvis fan, you just gotta have this. It will remind you of why you always loved the 45's, and the sound of each immaculately retains the flavour of the era (I loaded them onto my ipod for continuous playing, as constantly changing a CD after every 2 tracks, gets a little irritating). For casual Elvis fans, it is probably not worth the money as you can get these tracks much cheaper on one compilation. For me, it reminds me of exactly why I started listening to Elvis..Great Music!!! and for someone too young to remember the era, I can now see what the product looked like on the shelves, way back when music really mattered....Enjoy!

Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Heartbreak Hotel
2. I Was The One

Disc 2:

1. I Want You, I Need You, I Love You
2. My Baby Left Me

Disc 3:

1. Hound Dog
2. Don’t Be Cruel (Double A-side single)

Disc 4:

1. Love Me Tender
2. Any Way You Want Me (That’s How I Will Be)

Disc 5:

1. Are You Lonesome Tonight
2. I Gotta Know

Disc 6:

1. Too Much
2. Playing For Keeps

Disc 7:

1. All Shook Up
2. That’s When Your Heartaches Begin

Disc 8:

1. (Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear
2. Loving You

Disc 9:

1. Jailhouse Rock
2. Treat Me Nice

Disc 10:

1. Don’t
2. I Beg Of You

Disc 11:

1. Hard Headed Woman
2. Don’t Ask Me Why

Disc 12:

1. A Big Hunk O’ Love
2. My Wish Came True

Disc 13:

1. Stuck On You
2. Fame And Fortune

Disc 14:

1. It's Now Or Never
2. A Mess Of Blues

Disc 15:

1. Surrender
2. Lonely Man

Disc 16:

1. Good Luck Charm
2. Anything That’s Part Of You

Disc 17:

1. Return To Sender
2. Where Do You Come From

Disc 18:

1. In The Ghetto
2. Any Day Now

Disc 19:

1. Suspicious Minds
2. You’ll Think Of Me

Disc 20:

1. Burning Love
2. A Matter Of Time

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #82140 in Music
• Released on: 2006-01-24
• Number of discs: 20
• Formats: Box set, Collector's Edition, Limited Edition
• Dimensions: 1.61 pounds

Album Description
This limited-edition, deluxe collector's box set is numbered for authenticity. It includes all of Elvis' 21 #1 US hits on 20 singles with original B sides.

Each single includes original 45 rpm single artwork and has a black finish to replicate the original vinyl release.

A 19" x 24" poster with cover art for all 20 singles is also includes in the package.

Amazon.com
RCA Records introduced the 45 record format in 1949, but it took six years for the seven-inch, two-sided single to gain popularity. And, coincidentally, it was soon after Elvis Presley signed with the label and released "Heartbreak Hotel," the first of his 21 chart-topping hits over the next 16 years. To celebrate the half-century since that hip-quaking debut, this tidy box set repackages every song--with its original B-side--on 20 CD singles, each designed to look like a 45 record and tucked into a colorful cardboard picture sleeve that closely replicates the original single. Elvis rocks ("All Shook Up," "Jailhouse Rock") and croons ("Love Me Tender," "Teddy Bear") through the early years, all chronicled with dates and credits in an accompanying booklet, and reinvents himself for late-‘60s hits ("In the Ghetto," "Burning Love" and the still-fresh "Suspicious Minds"). Grouped with such star power, the B-sides could get overlooked. But mostly undiscovered jewels like "That's When Your Heartaches Begin" (1957), "Lonely Man" (1961) and "Any Day Now" (1969) provide bonus tracks to casual fans of the King, and remind his greatest devotees that the Elvis legacy looms far deeper than his #1 singles. --Scott Holter

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Customer Reviews

Phenomenal DSD sound, simply puts other Elvis collections to shame!
First of all, the sound on these tracks is simply mind-blowing and definitely the best these tracks have ever sounded! Gone is all the mindless brickwall limiting exercised on such collections as "30#1 Hits" or "2nd to None", instead with the help of DSD mastering we are getting the original mixes reproduced as faithful as possible. The sound has noticeably more air, more definition, and the dynamic range has not been tampered with. One simply has to wonder whether BMG did not miss a golden opportunity here by not compiling these forty tracks onto a *killer* double-disc set at a more affordable price point. They definitely deserve a much wider exposure beyond the limited edition box set format they were released in.

Box set of singles
This box set is in reponse to the English box set. There the singles came out one week at a time and actually many of them became number one again!! They were so populat that all throughout the world these singles were sold and garnered big prices on eBay. Now the US has done the same thing. But you get all the singles in one box, not issued one at a time. There propably is no radio station that would bother playing them. After all, American Rock n Roll is more appreciated in other countries than in their homeland.

BMG/Sony did a very nice job with these. They are the correct sleeves, and for once the correct versions of the songs. If you remember Elv1s 30 had four wrong versions on it. These are the right ones. I also noticed that Hit Story also corrected their Elv1s with the correct versions. For the first time in over a decade we get the correct version of BIG HUNK o' LOVE that's worth the price alone!!!

Some great high points
This set has its ups and downs. On the plus side, the 50's hits NEVER sounded better, and I'm one of those chumps that keep buying the same songs over and over in different compilations hoping for a sonic revelation. The packaging is nice as well. On the down side, we get the same lousy stereo mix of "Return To Sender" as we've been getting through every CD version I know. I do have it in a great stereo version on "The Great Performances" CD I bought back in the 1980's, albeit muffled. Finally, BMG was not totally faithful as most of the 60's singles were only released in mono, which I was hoping for. Instead, they are here in stereo.